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CharlesMerriam2

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    Comment #31942497

    I'm sorry. Could you include a bit less information so we could speculate more wildly?

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    Comment #31942452

    And so it is as clear as is the Summer's sun.

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    Comment #28696627

    Feed the maw that is a contract law justice system project.

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    Comment #25656192

    I do wish there were a "this is what it actually is" comment.

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    Comment #25509936

    This can be a useful idea, requiring a checkbox on password managers, e.g., "[ ] Pause for additional input". No one ever answers how often security breaks are from: passwords bein…

  6. story
    Looking for Exemplars of Code Reviews?

    Do people get better from watching good code reviews? Are there videos of some excellent code reviews available? Any recommendations?

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    Comment #25441089

    Bill Gates has a podcast recently talking about this: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Podcast/Is-it-too-late-to-stop-cl... Also, the book "Ministry For The Future" is an SF take pulling…

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    Comment #25240731

    Why are landing pages so incredibly uninformative? In practice, I spend under two minutes to click around and see if can 'get' it. What does it do especially well? What's the synta…

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    Comment #25189993

    Hmmm.... Someone more passionate about open source usage could put up a brag site where products using open source and profiles of the authors of the open source are tracked. It wo…

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    Comment #24903814

    Hey! Not done! Won't hit commits! Awesome to know!

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    Comment #24900773

    I wonder what this is? My very first impression is a standard boot screen. No details. No screenshots. No idea what makes it special outside of "it works". On the first click, it w…

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    Comment #24717373

    Stories need to be good, and that's a problem. Right now, the HN community is voting up more "pop science" to drive people to paywalls. I don't know if its a troll farm or a side r…

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    Comment #24644150

    Everyone's a critic. Not all changes are one hundred percent good, but just saying "no. stop." isn't the correct answer.

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    Comment #24575757

    This might be a good story, but the github ReadMe manages not to say what the package does, why its unique, or why its cool. I'm sure it says something much later in the manual.

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    Comment #24575741

    Nice start. 1. Make a single button for common sentences, e.g., "8 characters with one or more digits and one or more punctuation." 2. Grab your vocabulary from a selected corpus, …

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    Comment #24575709

    At the risk of being too traditional: coin and courts. For coin, you start with Estonia's electronic signature infrastructure. You have the government work to maintain the sanctity…

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    Comment #24575598

    Sometimes I need to echo things back to understand. 1. Start-up decides to scrap their current, unhappy business to pivot into a totally different area for which they have no long …

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    Comment #24559603

    Have a rule. Our republic, and the California state government, is based on rule of law. One group makes the laws, another enforces it, and a third interprets the conflicts. This w…

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    Comment #24478091

    This has been done with hardware. The OLPC was a clean sheet implementation of a computer. It created ideas such as only having a few sizes of screws, shipping extra screws in the …

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    Comment #24458582

    Well, yeah. Good luck with that. -- California

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    Comment #24313174

    History is interesting here. Capitalism, according to Wealth of Nations, has some problems with corporations becoming monopolies. When Teddy Roosevelt was sidelined into the Vice P…

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    Comment #24228028

    Recognize that more reasonable solutions exist, for example, modifying AB5 exempting anyone pulling in >$50K ($25/hour for any hour available or logging into the app). Propositions…

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    Comment #24227561

    There are rights in the United States: life, liberty, safe working environments. But there is no right to a business model. Lyft is a business model that found a loophole in a prev…

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    Comment #24205033

    This type of article comes up from time to time, and is generally wrong on many points. * Corporate Labs are not for primary research, at least in the United States. In the U.S., a…

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    Comment #24196362

    Could we stop posting headlines from Markov generators? "Go home 2020. You're drunk." -- r.t.